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Biography
Yannis Kolesidis was born in Athens in 1973 and has been working as a photojournalist since 1994.
From 2004 to 2013 he worked for the international news agency Reuters and since 2014 he has been working for the Athenian Macedonian News Agency (APE-MPE) and the European Press Agency (EPA).
His photographs have been published in major newspapers and magazines abroad, such as the New York Times, Guardian, Time, Stern, Paris Match, etc. as well as the entire Greek press.
His work has won a number of awards, most notably second prize in the World Press Photo 2009, in the category “People in the News”.
Other awards include:
His images have been shown in a series of group exhibitions and in 2009 he presented his work from his collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with photographs from his travels to Niger, Zambia and India.
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